As you know I’m a Tank and a very decent geared on for gear. I never ventured to do my first Heroic as a Protect Paladin untill I had 485 Defense. Even when friends insisted I declined to do Heroics and I did have good gear by then. I was at least Revered/Exalted with almost all the main factions with actual Heroic keys and faction reward gear as a result of taking the time to really get prepared gear wise.

Now when I did my first Heroic I my gear was more than good enough having taking the time to prepare that I actually has to down grade my gear a bit and switch to Heroic gear. Very good gear. But you know when I as the tank stepped into my first Heroic and took them first set of hit on over 14k Armor I was still taking hits average from 3-7k been hit like a asteroid on impact. I felt all those hits. As the tank I was prepared in my gear, my healer was not prepared in his gear nor was his reaction fast enough to anticipate the damage load I was taking. Nothing was wrong with my gear, it was just due to the fact that Heroics hit super hard and if your a Clothy and you pull aggro count your self maybe 2 hits if that to your death.

Everyone needs to be prepared in Heroics. Everyone needs to have at least decent gear from doing regular 5 man instance for their class. Need to have damn good healers in Heroic on the tank or its a easy wipe. You need very good DPS or you healer healing the tank will run out of mana. 2 times on Heroic Mech as I was tanking I watched my Healer run flat out of mana as DPS was low and I as the tank was soaking damage and died eventually as healer ran out of mana.

At the end of that Mech run my complete repair bill for my Plate Armor damage was about 25g. That hurts. People need to realize Heroics are no joke and you need to be prepared in gear as well as the instance. For each person that unprepared in gear or skill for Heroics increases the possibility of frequent wipes and massive repair bills to everyone else and ungodly repair bills to the tank.

So now I have a rule for Heroics. Unless I know the healer and at least one the DPS I’m not running any random Heroics. Its suicide and I sure dont need escalated repair bills from all the now undergeared people in Heroics as a results of the lower requirements for Heroics.

Maybe it’s different for this one as the boss himself doesn’t have the drops? Who knows

Nice drops but not what the people there were looking for and nothing for casters.